Project Connect Needs Volunteers and Donations

Project Connect needs volunteers Oct. 18-19 at Hargraves Center. This one-stop service event connects people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, homelessness with services in the community. Donations are also welcome. Read more.

Things to do in Chapel Hill

Jared Yates Sexton discusses his new book, The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters
Upon Your Shore. www.flyleafbooks.com/

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From Town Hall

Quick Facts: Homegrown
Halloween 2017

We’re updating information at townofchapelhill.org/halloween, and we’ll send out more information
about the Town’s efforts to keep the community safe on Halloween this year.
Here are a few quick facts about Homegrown Halloween.

Halloween will be on Oct. 31
regardless of the fact that it falls on a Tuesday this year

Downtown streets will be closed to
motor vehicles from 8 to 10:30 p.m. (a list of streets and maps will be
released soon)

The Columbia and Franklin streets
intersection will be closed to motor vehicles this year. The Town is
working with County and UNC Health Care staff to ensure quick and easy
access to and from the hospital.

Stopping and passenger unloading
will not be permitted on Franklin Street.

Project Connect Returns
to Hargraves Center

The 10th Project Connect will be held on Thursday, Oct.
19, 2017, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hargraves Community Center located at
216 North Roberson St., Chapel Hill.

Project Connect is a one-day, one-stop service event to
connect people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, homelessness with a
broad range of services including housing, employment, physical and mental
health care, veterans’ and social service benefits, legal services, and more.

Volunteer time-slots are available the evening on
Wednesday, Oct. 18 and on Thursday Oct. 19 – community members are encouraged
to sign up online to volunteer. The Partnership is also soliciting donations to
help with the event – items in the giveaway bags and food items. Please find
out more and sign up on the Partnership to End
Homelessness website:

“Project Connect provides a wide range of assistance in
one location with a tremendous outpouring of respect and hospitality,” said
Corey Root, Orange County Homeless Programs Coordinator. “The event enables
service agencies to efficiently reach many people in a single day, and it
educates the community about the issues of homelessness.”

Give Your Input on Chapel
Hill’s Future Inclusive Playground

The Parks and Recreation Department will hold a public
input meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, in Room A of the Chapel Hill
Public Library to solicit input on specific ideas for Chapel Hill’s future
Inclusive Playground.

Children are welcome to attend the meeting, where they
will have a chance to draw and design their own playground features. Feel free
to come anytime between 5 and 7 p.m., as this is a drop-in style format.

The Inclusive Playground will be designed as a place
where children of all abilities feel welcome to play, and will be located at
Cedar Falls Park.

The Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department along
with design consultants from WithersRavenel will use public input to create a
unique park destination with design aspects important for children of all
abilities.

Have Your Say about the
Future of Mobile Phone Service in Chapel Hill

Do you have ideas about the future of mobile phone
service in Chapel Hill? Please share your input via this poll -- https://pollev.com/toch
-- which will take only 5-10 minutes. The poll will be active until Oct. 12.

Your participation will provide input toward a Chapel
Hill’s Telecomm Master Planning and Ordinance process. This will address
anticipated changes in wireless technology and the need for regulatory
improvements.

Wireless communications and the associated infrastructure
is essential to our community as regards basic day-to-day services,
educational, public safety, entertainment, and business needs.

The bus stop on Bowles Drive at Smith Center (#3228) will
be temporarily relocated to the entrance near Tar Heel Boulevard during this
time.

Chapel Hill Transit will make every attempt to maintain
schedules but is advising customers to expect delays and to allow extra travel
time. Any delays will also impact NextBus predictions for the routes. For
specific schedule information, please visit www.chtransit.org, email chtransit@townofchapelhill.org, or call a customer service
representative at 919-485-7433.

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Speed Limit Reduced on Rosemary Street

The Chapel Hill Town Council approved the reduction from 25 miles per hour to 20 miles per hour on the entirety of Rosemary Street—east of North Boundary Street to the Carrboro Town Limits.

This reduction matches the speed limit on Franklin Street and Main Street in Carrboro. All 14 speed limit signs have been replaced and include orange flags to draw extra attention to the new speed limit; a digital display board at each end of the road will help educate people driving motor-vehicles of the reduction for the next two weeks.

The speed reduction will improve safety for all travelers along Rosemary Street. Other safety efforts include recent streetscape improvements and the addition of a buffered bike lane.

Did you know? More than 54,000 motor-vehicles use Rosemary Street in a one-week period when UNC-Chapel Hill and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools are in session. That number drops by more than half when school is out.

Do you walk, bike, run and wheel around Chapel Hill? The Town of Chapel Hill is busy with projects to improve your travel safety and convenience – including sidewalks, streets, trails and greenways, traffic calming and more. For more information, visit townofchapelhill.org/gettingaround. And, for a weekly digest of all Town news, sign up for Chapel Hill eNews at townofchapelhill.org/signup or by sending a request to info@townofchapelhill.org.

Tar Heel Express Service to
the North Carolina Versus Notre Dame Football Game Oct. 7

Chapel Hill Transit will provide Tar Heel Express shuttle
service on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, for the North Carolina football game against
Notre Dame, scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at Kenan Stadium. Shuttles will begin at
12:30 p.m. from the Friday Center and Airport Drive (103 Airport Drive, Chapel
Hill) park and rides, and 2 p.m. from the Southern Village and Jones Ferry Road
park and rides.

Shuttles drop off and pick up on South Road at Carmichael
Auditorium and Woolen gym. The shuttles will provide continuous and fully
accessible service, running every 10 to 15 minutes between the park and rides
and Kenan Stadium. The shuttles will operate for forty-five (45) minutes
following the game. Shuttle rides are $5 for a round-trip or $3 for a one-way
trip. Park and ride permits are not required during Tar Heel Express events.

The shuttles will provide continuous and fully accessible
service, running every 10 to 15 minutes between the Friday Center and the Dean
E. Smith Center. The shuttles will operate for 45 minutes following the event.
Shuttle rides are $5 for a round-trip or $3 for a one-way trip.